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04.07.2012 |

German study on Bt cotton benefits in India is untrue and misleading

We urged Matin Qaim, professor of agricultural economics and rural development at Georg-August-University of Goettingen and all other authors of the study to the dying field of vidarbha where more than 9000 cotton farmers committed suicide and 100% farmers who opted Bt.cotton seed are in distress and debt where as Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar himself admitted in Indian parliament that vidarbha cotton farmers’ are losing more than Rs.2000 crore due to wrong selection of rain sensitive Bt.cotton in rain fed region of Maharashtra and study also contradict the official report of Central Institute of Cotton Research Director Keshav Kranthi that the cost of seeds of straight varieties is much lower than Bt varieties [Kishor Tiwari of vidarbha advocacy group Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti says]

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